Question: Love, love, loved the verbal ass kicking Emily gave Logan's mom on last Tuesday's Gilmore Girls. It just proves once again the brilliance behind that show.
Answer: I knew you guys were going to eat that up. And not to take anything away from Kelly Bishop's sublime delivery, but major props must go out to Dan Palladino for scripting the classic smack-down. In case you missed any of it, I'm posting the entire monologue here. Feel free to commit it to memory and then recite it to the raging bitch in your life:
EMILY: Ah, yes. Well, let me tell you this, Shira — we are just as good as you. You don't think Rory is good enough for your son? As if we don't know Logan's reputation? We do. But he is welcome in our home anytime, and you should extend
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The dead came alive at the box office this weekend, with Reese Witherspoon's ghost story, Just Like Heaven, debuting at No. 1 with a haul of $16.5 million and Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride raking in $411,000 in extremely limited release (we're talking five theaters limited). Rounding out the top five were The Exorcism of Emily Rose in second place with $15.3 million, Nicolas Cage's Lord of War in third with $9.2 million, The 40 Year Old Virgin in fourth with $5.8 million and the new serial-killer thriller Cry_Wolf in fifth with $4.6 million.
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose grossed a head-spinning $30.2 million over the weekend to debut atop the box office. It marked the third-biggest September opener in history, behind Sweet Home Alabama and the first Rush Hour. Rounding out the top five were The 40 Year Old Virgin (No. 2 with $7.9 million), Transporter 2 (No. 3 with $7.2 million), The Constant Gardener (No. 4 with $4.8 million) and Red Eye (No. 5 with $4.6 million).
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